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A92843	Englands condition parralelld with Iacobs for [brace] troubles. Salvations. Hopes. Laid open in two sermons, lately preached at Marlborough in Wilts. By Iohn Sedgwick, Batchelour in Divinity and Pastor of the Church at Alphage neere Cripplegate, London.	Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing S2360; Thomason E115_23; ESTC R18288	48,093	63

and entertaining errors against the foundation formality in Religion decaying in her first love want of compassion to other bleeding Churches be not expiated in the bloud of Christ England will bee an undone and miserable Nation What peace so long as the whoredomes 2 Kings ● 22. of they mother Iezabell and her witchcrafts are so many O that we could tender up JESUS CHRIST unto God for Englands sins 2 To bee much in Nationall humiliation the whole Land must bee mourned for ô that wee could weepe over England and grieve for the sins of England surely the whole Land must mourne and grieve or it cannot long stand a Nation 3. To desire and further a Nationall reformation there must bee a purging of the Church from its drosse there must be the setting up the power and purity of Ordinances every man must strive to reforme and amend else the Kingdome will soone fall asunder 4. To cast out the endangering enemies of our Kingdome if you shall suffer men of bloud and cruelty enemies to God and Religion and not doe justice upon them the kingdome cannot but be ruined 5. To give off your daily course of sinning if God finde us a people set on our sinnes and that we will not give off the love and practise of iniquity hee will not spare us how can wee expect the avo dance of troublous times or the continuance of peacefull times when we fill up the times with iniquities Vse 7 Seventhly and lastly Let us be farre from procuring troublous times unto the Churches of God I know that it is a great sin to bee an efficient malicious cause of trouble to the state of GODS Church the Apostle doth wish them cut off that were Church troublers and Iosuah proceeding to judgement against Ach●n Galath 5. 12. said why hast thou troubled us the Lord shall trouble thee this day Josbuah 7. 25. it is no small crime to be a troubler of Israel and here give me leave to acquaint you with the truth for I finde that you are abused by the false suggestions of some who beare no good will to the Parliament or the welfare of Sion There are some who are said to bee the troublers of the State of the Church and Kingdome among us who are no more guiltie of that charge then holy Elijah was it s not those worthies now assembled in Parliament who seeke to their utmost to preserve Gods Religion and all your liberties and estates that have troubled the state of our times was it ever known that right Protestant English spirits did ever repute their chosen Knights Burgesses and Citizens who are the repairers of their breaches and the restorers of pathes to dwell in troublers of Church and State Did you know but the fidelity and Loyalty of their hearts to the KING and kingdome and behold their constant paines and diligence for the good of us and all our posterity you would blesse God for them and account as they doe indeed deserve worthily of them There are others who are reall and actuall disturbers and troublers Who are so troublers o● our times of our times namely 1. Proud and discontented Prelates together with their idle and scandalous followers whose spirits are swolne so bigge that they scorning reformation have throwne PETERS Keyes into Tibur and have taken Pauls sword in their hands setting on that warre in the Land which may truly be called Bellum Episcopale 2. Papists and popishly affected persons who having received the marke of the beast doe seeke to maintaine Idolatry among us and for their idols resolve to fight tanquam pro aris focis beleeve me that it is the smoake which commeth out of the Popes Kitching that 's ready to choake the Church and doth make so many aking he●rts and weeping eyes among us and our Warre is bellum papale 3. Guiltie and convicted persons who having formerly by unjust courses illegall patents and other wayes of oppression deceived us in our meates drinkes and apparell doe now feare the sentence and lash of the I aw and seeke rather to imbroile the Subjects in war then to yeeld them a just satisfaction 4. And in a word many endebted and upstart Nobles with other beggarly and discontented Cavaliers men without callings and Conscience even birds of prey who flutter up and downe drinking healths to the Divell and their owne damnation if they overthrow not the Parliament and hang up the Round Heads by whom they meane the truely godly of the Land these and the like are the malignant and molesting party into whose secret let none of your soules come with them have no confederacy nay rather discover their plots resist their persons and according to your Protestation joyne with those who are ready to live and die to doe you and yours good to bring them to condigne punishment Thus when wee have done our utmost to prevent troublous times if God shall bring in troubles among us wee shall enjoy the peace of our Consciences and may expect in his owne time the promised salvation and deliverance laid downe in the next part Englands Salvations But he shall be saved out of it HEre wee have the light side of the Text viz. the promise of salvation out of their great trouble and misery times of deliverance should follow times of trouble we know that there is a threefold Salvation belonging to GODS Churches 1. One spirituall which is the soules salvation from the power A Threefold salvation of sin in the sanctification of their natures when men are sanctified then are they saved 2. Another eternall which is the delivery of soule and body from hells damnation in the glorification of their persons when men are brought to heaven then are they saved 3. A third is Temporall which is their freedome from outward miseries into which their sins have cast them of this salvation our Text speaketh The sense is this that though they were for the present under many and great miseries by their captivity yet a time was designed and decreed by heaven for their deliverance they should not alwayes bee bond-men in the hands of the Caldeans and Babilonians there should come the yeare of Inbilee when the prisons should be opened and the prisoners set free enjoying themselves and their ordinances and their wonted peace and priviledges whence I gather this point That God hath his times and meanes wherein and whereby hee Doct. 2. Gods Churches have salvation will save and deliver his Churches out of their great and desperate troubles Consider sometimes God doth save his Churches and people from From troubles they are exempted from destructions Noah is saved when the old world was drowned and Lot was saved when Sodom was burned there was 7000. saved from Iezabels fury UNIT = In and wee read of a remnant that escaped Sometimes God doth save his servants in In their troubles though they are involved in the common miseries of others yet care is

saved by the Lord The Lord is my Deut 33 ●● Exod. 〈…〉 Psalme 9● 12. streagth and song and he is become my salvation God is my King of old working salvation in the midst of the earth when the Angell had spoken unto Daniel of the greatnesse of the miseries of the Church under Antiochus he saith and at that time thy people shall be delivered 2. By th●se confirming grounds First In God there is every thing which may make for the salvation of his peo●le out of troublous times As 1. Might and power he is one able to save Esa 63. 1. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fierie furnace Daniel 3. 1● Yea so omnipotent is God that nothing is able to withstand his power in saving his out of trouble and therefore it is often said that with a mighty and a strong hand even as it were by force of Armes hee brought them out of the house of bondage 2. Mercy and Love unto his Churches and people God doth not cease to love his when they are in Captivity and Calamity his bowels are troubled for them and therefore he will surely have Ierem 31. ●● mercy upon them and deliver them had God no love in him not love unto his Churches then they might lie and rot in the prison but we know that he loves them with an unchangeable love they are his darlings deare and tender unto him and this makes him to arise to their deliverance Israel is my sonne even my first b●rne Exod. 4. 12. 13 let my sonne goe saith Moses to Pharaoh 3. Will and desire God is willing to save his people Loe this Esay 15 9. Daniel 3. 17. is our God we have waited for him and he will save us and hee wi●l deliver us out of thy hand O King God hath a readinesse of min● to succour and save his children out of troubles and what can hinder their salvation 4. Wisedome and skill the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly ● Peter 2 9. out of temptations all wayes and meanes for salvation are to be found in God 5. Faithfulnesse and truth God hath undertaken to save and promised deliverance but upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance Obadiah v. 17. Zech. 8. 7 8. and there shall be holinesse and the house of Jacob shall possesse their possessions and againe thus saith the Lord of Hostes behold I will save my people from the East Country and from the West Country and I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Ierusalem and they shall be my peopl● and I will be their God in truth and in righteousnesse 6. Care and provid●nce as the generall care of God goeth along with all his Creatures so his speciall care and providence is held over his Churches and doth compasse them as the hills doe compasse Ierusalem hence it was that Noah had his Arke and Moses his basket or Cradle of Bulru●hes 7. Name and Title God is stiled in one place the Saviour of Ierem. 14. 8. Psalme 40. 17. 1 Chro● ●6 ●● Psalme 65. 7. Israel in another place a deliverer and in a third place the salvation of his people now these Titles are made good in this Act of freeing his people and taking them out of their miserable conditions 8. Soveraignty and dominion God is Lord and King the ruler and over-ruler of all persons and actions men and devills death and the grave heaven and hell are at his disposall every condition 〈◊〉 45 ● of peace and trouble light and darknesse are his creatures all things stoore to him and are ruled by him now having this absolute command over all he can with a nod or a word make the Seas to give up their de●d and command deliverances for Iacob the creature shall bee so farre from resisting and opposing his will that it shall further and hasten the same and therefore it is that the Churches have their deliverance Reason 2 Secondly In the Lord Iesus who is the great and mighty Saviour and one that saveth his Churches spiritually and eternally be having saved them from the greatest danger by sin will also set out himselfe to save them out of the lesse danger by misery he is one that goes along with Iacob in all his troubles he it was that was Daniell 3. 25. in the burning furnace with the three Children hee was in the Ship with the Disciples upon the Seas and he is that Michael the Daniell 12. 1. great Prince which standeth up and standeth for the Children of thy people We may not conceive the Church to be under misery and trouble but Iesus Christ puts himselfe into its condition in their affliction he is afflicted Christ is persecuted when they are Isay 63. 9. Acts 9. 6. Hebrewes 4. 15. persecuted hee is an High Priest touched with our infirmitie and he will arise and shew himselfe to bee on his Churches side and doth never faile them in present assistance and seasonable deliverance all the dangers of the Church are but the awakenings of Christ and the calling of him forth unto their succour he will now be working for their good he saith for the oppression of my Church I will arise they shall not alwayes lie among the pots be in the graves and burne in the fire I will not alwayes stand looking Psalme 12. upon their miseries but will come downe rebuking their enemies and delivering their persons for they are my flesh and bone even such whom I tender as a man doth the apple of his eye Reason 3 Thirdly In the enemies and troublers of the Church I know that there is no will in them to further the Churches deliverance they are their oppressors and would still detaine them under bondage as wee may see in Pharaoh yet there is a necessity in respect of them that the Churches be delivered For 1. The ●ride of their heart must be taken downe 2. Their projects and purposes must be broken in pieces 3 They must returne with shame and dishonour 4. They must have their spirits filled with vexation and indignation Psalme 112. 10. Prov. 11. 8. 5. They must come into misery themselves and in a word 6. They must be made to confesse that great is the truth and it Zech. 12. 3. will prevaile strong is Christ and he will overcome heavie and burthensome is Ierusalem even such a stone that all that burden themselves therewith shall be cut in pieces Reason 4 Fourthly In the Churches themselves to make this cleare to you Note 1. That the Church of God is not made only for misery but misery is made for the Church miserable conditions are the proper portion of wicked men dangers are accidentall to Gods people and brought upon them for an end better and beyond troubles and therefore they must not alwayes lie under troubles 2. That the Churches of God under troubles and dangers are very praying we see